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" My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work. "

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" Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary. "

" I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films. "

" I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful. "

" Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got. "

" I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them. "

" The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done. "

" You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?' "

" I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes. "

" You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything. "

" I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement. "

" I've always loved film more than theater. "

" I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60. "

" My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people. "

" I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately. "

" It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. "

" When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else. "

" I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters. "

" I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule. "

" I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius. "

" What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? "

" It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that. "

" What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me. "

" My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. "

" Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history. "

" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "

" It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.' "

" All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment. "

" I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people. "

" When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble. "